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Saturday, May 8, 2010

Wisconsin Rocks Volume 6 1963-1969 The Invaders Are Coming!

This might be one of the best compilations,the strongest of Wisconsin's 60's music ever made,yet I know of some missing vital tracks here, I'm going to leave this "as it is". I won't add anything to this one, but might make a missing volume myself. This is essentially the coolest garage songs too. Some of these tracks appeared on other compilations like Highs In The Mid-60's the Pebbles series,and even some Back From The Grave compilations. I love this stuff! The one song that stands out for me is the amazing song Hard Life by the Why 4, garage fiends get ready! This is the coolest unknown garage songs on the planet. Completely uncomped ,and I never found this song on any garage compilation,so far and I've been collecting them since 1979-1980 when the very first Pebbles/Boulders were unleashed on the planet. This comp is a real treat!Wisconsin Rocks Volume 6 Various Artists01. The Converts - Don't Leave Me02. Merrill's Marauders - The Marauder03. The Wanderer's Rest - Anytime,Anywhere04. Jack & The Beanstalks - So Many Times05. The Zoo - Sometimes06. The Invasion - Do You Like What You See07. The Baroques - There's Nothing To Do But Cry08. The Golden Catalinas - Varsity Club Song09. The Why 4- Not Fade Away10. The Why 4 - Hard Life11. The Crucibles - You Know I Do12. Joey Gee & The Come-Ons - She's Mean13. The Moody Walkers - We Never Loved Before14. The Young Savages - The Invaders Are Coming15. Attilla & The Huns - The Lonely Huns16. The Paegons - I Can Only Give You Everything17. The Ricochettes - Find Another Boy(First Version)18. The Ricochettes - Don't Waste Your Time19. The Quarry Men - Don't Try Your Luck20. Lord Beverly Moss & The Mossmen - Please Please,What's The Matter21. The Deverons - On The Road Again22. Kiriae Crucible - Salem Witch Trials23. The Chevrons- Still In Love With You24. The Limeys - Silly Little Girl25. The Loyal Opposition - Telling Lies26. The Young Savages - Welcome To My World27. The Casuals - Come On(Pretty One)28. The Wanderer's Rest - You'll Forget29. The Matadors - You're A Better Man Than I30. The Mustard Men - I Lost My Baby31. The Nomads - You Come AroundThe fabulous Joey Gee & The Come-Ons hailed fromUpper Michigan,and recorded their tracks in Wisconsin,and you should visit Steve Seymour's excellent blog formore about them(and some other Wisconsin bands-hey!)http://rocknrollgraffiti.blogspot.com/Rock n Roll Graffiti blog. He goes into greater detail about thebands,and I sometimes just prefer to unleash the musicand let the reader decide whether it's a thumbs up or down.(You either dig it or you don't,right?)The bands are from: Milwaukee,Janesville, Oshkosh, Appleton,La Crosse,Racine, Sheboygan, Oshkosh, Beloit, Marinette, and acouple of bands are from Rockford,IL, Dubuque Iowa, but the labels(LeRon, Rampro, Sara,Continental, Target,Raynard, Dynamic Sound,PKC, Coulee, Feature, Wright, Night Owl, Madtown)they are on,are strictly Wisconsin!Complete with scans,so you can keep track of the coolness.Wisconsin Rocks Volume 6

18 comments:

thanks a lot for another load of WI-gems... just one question: Doo-Whop-Biography (http://doo-wop.blogg.org/themes-chevrons-167705.html) states the Chevrons were from Washington Heights, New York, and you'll find: 1962 - "Please don't make me cry" / "Still in love with you" (Sara 6462) (same #). So who's right? (The record doesn't sound like 1962 to me...)

A lot good songs on your comp that I haven't heard before. The Matadors,Paegons and Ricochettes just too name few. Thanks for your time and effort putting this together and sharing your music. You made my day, thank you. JohnP.S. The others 5 comps are good as well, I didn't want to forget too tell you that. I love that garage / British invasion sound.

Milano dude: I didn't make the comps,but there's got to be a band or two called the Chevrons in just about every state,back in the 60's. Are you sure? That was a common name,I'm just saying. I'll still check out your link and doo wop thing.Thanks for caring.

Anonymous: well we have to start from the 50's and move onwards,there's more comps,but they are still 60's,then we swerve into the 70's as I go on, until about 1982 or so,not much later than that...it's stays 50's-70's very early 80's. Be patient!

I just wanted to let you know that I’ve put some of the tracks kindly posted by you on my latest installment of my '60s (mostly) uncomped'-series (with info, pics & links to the Bloggers in the booklet attached); you’ll find it at http://michaelvee.livejournal.com. Thanks a lot for posting and I hope you’ll enjoy my selection.

Hi Michael Vee! Love your blog -it's amazing music! thanks for the links! As always love the Japanese/Asian music,along with your other comps of Australian garage,USA Garage (mostly uncomped)is also some of the best music unheard and heard!

Thanks Hotrodmike too! I love to educate people on music they never heard of before. That's why most bloggers are doing this to begin with!

It makes me feel good that everyone seems to like the WISCONSIN ROCKS! series. Since I put them together.The tracks come from my collection and some of my friends collections.currently there are35 volumes of WISCONSIN ROCKS! out on CD plus 3 volumes of WISCONSIN GROOVES R & B from Wisconsin. Plus collections from, The Robbs, Skunks, Legends, Thee Prophets, Harvey Scales and some others.Littlegenius CDs

Hey: I'd sure like to hear the Wisconsin Grooves series,the R & B.I suppose it's got a lot more Harvey Scales? Does it have any Earl Hooker? Birdlegs and Pauline? I hope so. Good stuff.Even Cuca Records founder Jim Kirchstein has a set of these from me,and loves them.(I thought he would be weird about it,but he didn't seem to be)We are set to meet again and talk about music and I can't wait to see him again....he's so cool!

I'm trying to get him to re-issue more of this stuff from his master tapes,which I was lucky to see,and I really hope he considers doing something more with this music,so we can all hear it finally!

I just think it shouldn't be hoarded,it should be heard and played/enjoyed/whatever. There's so much cool music here,I want people to know about it.

Everyone! I gotta post some Earl Hooker! God,he's so great! I also want people to know please check out youtube and type in Earl Hooker,and you will freak! He recorded at Cuca Records in the early 60's,and I was lucky to read a book about him from Jim Kirchstein,lent it to me,and he's also an amazing blues guitarist that's not enough people seem to know about...so I will post some of that soon! He only recorded here,he wasn't born here,but still,he was well loved here,in this area,and played many Milwaukee/Chicago blues clubs.

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